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With a cooler than expected finish at Tepon after Stage 3, much of the Crocodile Trophy camp slept to the sound of rain on their tent – unless they had the hotel option of course. It doesn’t rain that much in that area, but with such a heavy rain system sitting off the coast plenty […]
Waking on the blustery shores of Lake Tinaroo today was pretty special. The Crocodile Trophy is many things – but it’s often known for the wrong things. Much commentary online has been made about yesterday’s stage and a mistake with course marking – where vehicles couldn’t access the middle section of the course. Few of […]
Stage 2 of the Crocodile Trophy tends to be when the race truly gets underway – or so say many of those riders who have completed the race before. Unlike Stage 1, which is an XCO race within Smithfield Mountain Bike Park, Stage 2 has a end off from the Esplanade in Cairns. With a […]
For 2017 the Crocodile Trophy moved to new dates, bringing the race forward to September instead of the traditional date in October. It was hoped that some riders would stay on after the recent World Championships. And while not many did, today it was Haley Smith and Leandre Bouchard from Canada who backed up their […]
Due to heavy rainfall and snow in upper areas, Stage 3 of the Perskindol Swiss Epic route has been adjusted. Instead of individual starts on the mountain at the Rinderhütte, the race started in blocks in Leukerbad, so that it all took place earlier and in lower areas. The adjusted route covered 42 km, with […]
In rainy weather the men’s field in the Epic format was disarranged today at the Perskindol Swiss Epic. The Swiss BiXS Pro Team with Konny Looser and Oliver Zurbrügg won the stage with a time of 4h 31min and took the lead rather surprisingly, despite a flat tyre. Andri Frischknecht of the Scott-SRAM MTB Racing […]
The fourth edition of the Perskindol Swiss Epic kicked off on Monday 11 September 2017 with the prologue in Grächen. The first day’s champions in the men’s category was the Team Centurion Vaude with Daniel Geismayr and Jochen Käss, who completed the 18km track in the fast time of 52 minutes and 20 seconds. For the women, […]
The Swiss mountain bike superstar Jolanda Neff has just won her first Elite Women’s XCO World Title, with a commanding display of technical ability, fitness and race tactics in Cairns, Australia. Although Neff won the XCM World Championships in 2016, this is her first elite title in XCO, which is her main discipline. She’s just […]
One of the events to make a big splash o the marathon stage race calendar in the past two years is The Pioneer. After two gruelling editions in 2016 and 2017, the 2018 dates were delayed, to make sure The Pioneer had the right mix of route and timing. And today, The Pioneer is back, […]
In 2018 the World Cross-country Mountain Bike Marathon Championships head back to Italy, to a mountainous course in the Dolomites – running alongside the 3Epic event. The 2017 edition has proven to be an excellent preview for the organisers, racers and fans. Italian Samuele Porro (Team Trek Selle San Marco) just won the 2017 edition of the […]
